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China has advised the Philippines to oppose Taiwan s independence instead of offering the US access to its military facilities near the Taiwan strait, reported Manila-based publication Daily Tribune.
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement signed in 2014 allows US forces to access, to build facilities, and position equipment, aircraft, and vessels, to designated Philippine military facilities, but not as permanent bases the way Subic, Zambales and Clark in Mabalacat, Pampanga hosted the largest US military bases in the eastern Pacific until 1991 when the Philippine Senate rejected the treaty to extend US military presence.